Canada - Angry Canucks Boycott US Products, Cancel Vacations

The war of words that erupted between Canadian PM Justin Trudeau and US President Donald Trump shows no sign of abating as the hashtag #BuyCanadian that started trending on social media soon after the spat between the two at the G7 laid bare their differences.

After Mr. Trudeau’s closing news conference at the G7 summit in Quebec mentioned that Canada would “not be pushed around” on trade, Mr Trump responded with an angry tweet, calling Trudeau “dishonest” and “weak,” and claiming that those remarks would cost “a lot of money for the people of Canada.”

However, Mr. Trump’s remarks seem to have hit a nerve with Canadians all over as soon after the hashtag #BuyCanadian started appearing with people proudly showing their ‘Trump Free’ cart in grocery stores or stating happily that they had canceled their planned summer vacations to Florida.

Mr Trudeau continued: "There's going to be ups and downs in negotiations as there always are, moments of a little more intensity and moments where we’re all getting along, but throughout one of the things that has helped us so much is that Canadians have stuck together across party lines, across provincial capitals… there is a common approach.”